Loriann Drappo

“All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your ways though I am--would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them.

Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths."

These are worth it. These are what I have come for.”
― Margaret Atwood, Good Bones

“Sometimes these things are meant to come out. Need to. But only the good Lord can help with the things that bite into the soul.”
― Lucian Bane, Beg For Mercy

“I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.”
― Ann Patchett